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Bangalore
May 6, 2008
Hughes has introduced a new VPN offering called 'Managed Broadband VPN'
as part of its Managed Network Services portfolio. Managed Broadband VPN is a
fully managed, cost-effective VPN solution designed on a dual medium of
terrestrial and satellite to deliver connectivity services with the ease of 'One
Window Interaction' and end-to-end monitoring and management capabilities.
As per a Hughes statement, this bundled solution offers enterprise customers
high reach and broadband speed at competitive rates and is targeted at
organizations that need to connect a large number of sites.
The new service blends both satellite broadband and wireline technologies
like DSL into a fully integrated Managed Network Service that offers the most
cost-effective VPN service for enterprises at every location translating into
improved performance, higher employee productivity, and greater customer
satisfaction.
The service is currently being launched in two options. The first uses either
a terrestrial or satellite medium at an organization's location depending on
the feasibility and reliability criteria. The second uses both the terrestrial
and satellite medium at each and every location in order to provide a very high
uptime still remaining cost-effective.
“While IP VPN market in India is estimated to be around $386.7 million in
2008 and growing at a rate of 32.7 percent, the challenges faced by distributed
enterprises with respect to cost-effective connectivity while networking large
number of points of presence and lack of skilled IT manpower to manage these
networks still remains a reality. Hughes' Optimized VPN Service plugs this
very gap in the market,” said K Krishna, AVP-Marketing, Hughes India. “The
response from verticals like retail and BFSI has been extremely positive and I
am confident that Hughes will be able to capture a sizeable chunk of this
market,” he added.
Over the last year, Hughes has covered 2,00,000 sites in the US and Europe
with this service and gained significant expertise and understanding of the
market. “One of feedback that we got from the market was that customers wanted
us to build redundancies on individual sites-a trend that was hereto uncommon.
As a result, we are a service whereby they can choose to build redundancies on
individual sites, thus targeting an uptime of 99.99 percent per site,” said
Krishna.
The statement added that the service also employs the highest security
standards such as IPSec and AES and comes with turnkey network deployment and
implementation, proactive fault management for both the network and the customer
premises equipment, performance management of the applications and a nationwide
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